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<blockquote data-quote="Scott Christian" data-source="post: 8929564" data-attributes="member: 6901101">Your only reason to not have it is because of the effects on high school students, and in your case, particularly girls. And, as I have stated many times, I also am a high school teacher, and I also help run the D&amp;D club. And as I stated before, this will not change anything. It will not harm anyone.The affects from social pressures that exist on all students are terrible. Adding one word will not, even in the slightest, tip any scale. And as I stated before, to which you never responded:Should we also remove all the words out of the definition of strength? Should we also remove the words from the definition of intelligence, which by the way mirrors exactly what some students with SLD are poor at: &quot;information recall,&quot; &quot;analytical skills,&quot; and &quot;ability to reason.&quot; That sounds exactly like someone who performs poorly on academic and IQ tests. It's even used in Wechsler's IQ definition, which most school districts still use to label students intellectually disabled or specific learning disabled. Why are you not on a fire and brimstone path towards erasing those definitions in the game?In the end, it is a game. It will not matter if that word is included. I like the fact that you care about your students. But I think you are severely overestimating the impact of a word, out of the thousands of pictures, words, and non-verbal signals these students receive daily.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scott Christian, post: 8929564, member: 6901101"] Your only reason to not have it is because of the effects on high school students, and in your case, particularly girls. And, as I have stated many times, I also am a high school teacher, and I also help run the D&D club. And as I stated before, this will not change anything. It will not harm anyone. The affects from social pressures that exist on [I]all[/I] students are terrible. Adding one word will not, even in the slightest, tip any scale. And as I stated before, to which you never responded: Should we also remove all the words out of the definition of strength? Should we also remove the words from the definition of intelligence, which by the way mirrors exactly what some students with SLD are poor at: "information recall," "analytical skills," and "ability to reason." That sounds exactly like someone who performs poorly on academic and IQ tests. It's even used in Wechsler's IQ definition, which most school districts still use to label students intellectually disabled or specific learning disabled. Why are you not on a fire and brimstone path towards erasing those definitions in the game? In the end, it is a game. It will not matter if that word is included. I like the fact that you care about your students. But I think you are severely overestimating the impact of a word, out of the thousands of pictures, words, and non-verbal signals these students receive daily. [/QUOTE]

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